No more movement found in freeway surface

Monitoring of the closed section of the Princes Freeway at Morwell has found no further movement in the road surface.

The freeway was closed last Thursday after movement and cracks were detected in the road and the adjacent Morwell open-cut coal mine.

The road is expected to be shut for months while mining and engineering experts look for a solution.

The incident controller, Superintendent Geoff Newby, says a team of experts is making plans based on a worst-case scenario.

"The sudden appearance of what might be called a sinkhole in and around or near the freeway or between the freeway and perhaps the mine or perhaps those cracks could either widen or lift and of course you don't know how far that might be but it only has to be a short distance and that would be terrible for any vehicles of course," he said.